A biologist's captivating call to action

At the age of 85, Edward O. Wilson, one of our foremost evolutionary biologists (and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner), has written a provocative book that is so fascinating it nearly lives up to the stunning ambition of its title.

A striking salute to the balance of nature

If you want a gut-level understanding of why preservation of the Earth’s biodiversity is vital to the survival of our own species, Edward O. Wilson’s new book, A Window on Eternity, is an excellent place to start.

Answering the questions of human evolution

With his probing curiosity, his dazzling research, his elegant prose and his deep commitment to bio­diversity, Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist (The Ants) and novelist (The Anthill) Edward O. Wilson has spent his life searching for the evolutionary paths by which humans developed and passed along the social behaviors that best promote the survival of our species. His eloquent, magisterial...

Audio Column by Sukey Howard

If you get the chance to saunter through the swankier sections of Manhattan, you're bound to see the current take on the New York nuclear family not mommy and daddy and child, but nanny and doggy and child. Privileged parents with Park Avenue penthouses are rarely seen with or by their treasured tots. And if you've wondered what it's like for the nannies and their darling little...

Preserving Mother Earth

Edward O. Wilson is firmly established as one of the most important scientific minds of our time. Beginning as a near-sighted Alabama kid with a love of insects, he has made himself into a world-class expert on social animals, evolutionary change and ecology. After Sociobiology and his splendid autobiography Naturalist, as well as many other books, Wilson's trophy shelf is packed with two...

Consilience review

After four decades of teaching, Edward O. Wilson retired from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology last year. Fortunately, he has not retired from writing. He has won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for the beautifully written On Human Nature and for The Ants, and has received the Crafoord Prize, created by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, to recognize achievement in fields the Nobel...